Sam Houser of Rockstar Games wrote:

We are all thrilled to have created a Western game that is different than anything Rockstar has done in the past.

	DEAD GRAPHICS Low LOW down, dirty dog polygons. Rockstar tried to distract us with massive degenerating film effects and heatwave blur, but I can see through the haze. Crummy jaggy models with dull textures.
	DEAD ANIMATION In this day when even a boxing game gets (and benefits greatly from) ragdoll physics, Red Dead Revolver was not content to merely have scripted death motions, but to also animate them as if they were one-joint Star Wars figures. Awkward, clunky and unsatisfying falls everywhere.
	DEAD GAMEPLAY The most puzzling aspect of Red Dead Revolver is the gameplay itself. It plays like a web based Flash game. Move from gunfight to gunfight via cutscene, and then sweep your cursor over the landscape and fire at bad guys. There is a pretense of running your character around and hiding behind scenery. I guess you can do this in an attempt to wring more fun out of the game, but I didn't bother.
	DEAD RPG-Y MOMENTS I almost stopped playing when they made me "play" a level that was nothing more than a cutscene driven by my button presses. Press SQUARE to talk to each passenger on the train? How emergently fun! This character tells me that there is a General Store in the next town! Fantastic! Finally I triggered the "next fight" flag seconds before I triggered the off switch flag.
	DEAD AI The AI runs on rails to the point that I often wound up behind and enemy who kept poking his head out from cover and firing in the exact opposite direction from my position. My position beside his left ear. I guess if I had to compare the AI to another video game, I'd say... Bank Panic?